femoral artery

noun

: the chief artery of the thigh lying in its anterior inner part

Examples of femoral artery in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

More recently, Episode 4 ended with Muse lugging a man into a gruesome lair of sorts, to extract an unhealthy amount of blood from a femoral artery. —Matt Webb Mitovich, TVLine, 21 Mar. 2025

As far as anyone can tell, Tommy was en route to the group shortly after lunchtime on Dec. 22 when a stray bullet from someone else in the area pierced his driver’s side door and struck the femoral artery in his left leg. —Wendy Grossman Kantor, People.com, 8 Feb. 2025

Authorities would later determine that the femoral artery in Tommy’s left leg had been hit. —Adam Carlson, People.com, 10 Feb. 2025

Tarrant County Deputy Medical Examiner Dr. Richard Fries determined that either a lacerated jugular vein or a transected femoral artery were capable of causing Ross’ death. —Emerson Clarridge, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 25 Jan. 2025

Word History

First Known Use

1735, in the meaning defined above

Medical Definition

femoral artery

noun

: the chief artery of the thigh that is a continuation of the external iliac artery lying in the anterior part of the thigh and is undivided until a point about two inches (5 centimeters) below the inguinal ligament where it divides into a large deep branch and a smaller superficial branch see deep femoral artery